In Memory of Sandra Miller
I truly cannot imagine the person I’d be if I hadn’t landed in the classes of my high school drama and musical theater teacher, Sandy Miller, known to me as Mrs. Miller, who has passed on.
I truly cannot imagine the person I’d be if I hadn’t landed in the classes of my high school drama and musical theater teacher, Sandy Miller, known to me as Mrs. Miller, who has passed on.
Today I was live on Connecticut Public Radio’s Colin McEnroe Show to talk ancestors and Ancestor Trouble. The hour begins as Jenny Strauss contemplates the legacy of her great-grandfather Lewis Strauss, currently depicted in “Oppenheimer” by Robert Downey, Jr. She refers to him as the film’s antihero, which was my takeaway of the director’s intentions after seeing it last night. . . .
When an ancestor who was persecuted also persecuted others–in even more devastating ways.
Washington Post reporter Sophia Nguyen predicts Obama’s summer 2023 books will include Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton